I constantly wear clothes with logos such as : O'Reilly, Slackware, Debian, FSF, Postgresql... do you think it makes people less likely to cooperate? :)
kali is great for that!
Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to cooperate with you
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#102I know some folks that own a successful clothing company. The wife is one of the top designers in the field. She's won all kinds of accolades, and is respected by the top people in the world (but not well-known, outside the industry). They wear expensive clothes, but it's not noticeable, unless you really look. I suppose they "put on the ritz," when they go to industry events, but I don't attend those. Some of the hu…
Similar to Zuckerberg wearing plain boring shirts...that happen to cost upwards of $300 apiece https://www.wmagazine.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-bru...
There are plenty of high quality, somewhat responsibly produced brands, that are highish priced but would never qualify as flashy (sunspel, l'estrange, common project, ...). They are also not what the article is talking about I guess, since they carry basically zero brand recognition.
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#103I like to wear nice clothes at work. I feel good in them and it is my way of being respectful to the workplace. I probably carry this too far when traveling. I have very light weight traveling sport coats and slacks - all washable in a hotel room and lots of hidden pockets (TravelSmith is a favorite brand). Sometimes it pays off big: when my wife and I were traveling around Central America with a buddy of mine and hi…
I don't think you are the target demographic this article is referencing.
yea this is aimed at people who earn £30k a year, but still have to be seen wearing a £1.5k Canada Goose jacket
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#104The article's title is "Showing off your status and wealth makes you seem less co-operative", and the title here on HN is absolutely wrong. I like wearing flashy clothes myself, and I would even say it has proven advantageous to cooperation in my line of work, so I was curious about this article. However, nowhere is it stated that flashy clothes make people less likely to cooperate with you. They say wearing clothes…
I was told it is never a faux pas to show up over dressed, but it is to be under dressed. If you look like a pimp, that's one thing. Showing up in a nice pair of pants and shirt when everyone else is in shorts and t-shirts is different.
So like wearing a tuxedo to a job interview is kosher? It’s not wearing a pimp outfit, but surely there are so many examples of wearing inappropriate fancy clothes that you can’t really say that it’s never possible to overdress.
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#105I was having this talk the other day: I hate "high end" logo clothes and don't want to compete with people that showcase their logo clothes. The average clothing store is decent enough for me. I would buy clothes with no distinctive marks if I could find them. Just plain material and colors.
Surplus.
Most people only think of military surplus and maybe don't want that sort of gear. But if you want super quality, plain "grey-man" gear like top-quality cotton polo shirts, very hard-wearing smart trousers there's a whole world of surplus brokers who take government contract overspill and whatnot.
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#106I got a bunch of fake Supreme, Gucci and Versace one time cause I thought it was hilarious and I needed some fresh threads after sweating out most of my clothes being at the beach that weekend for the same night. After I got all these compliments from people on my clothes when I returned to North America like wow isn't that shirt 200$... Someone STOLE THE FAKE SUPREME SHIRT!!!
Like... I got that for 5$ at a bus station in Latin America and all those shirts fell apart within a year anyways.
I also remember going to a club wearing that supreme shirt and this other older guy had a fake supreme shit that just said "millennials" in the red bar instead which was great. He just kept on giving me the stink eye. His shirt was admittedly 10x better
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#107Re: Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to cooperate with you
#108Any kind of self-promotion is unpleasant, except to other self-promoters. For them its competitive. And yes, this includes the virtue emojis on Twitter and GitHub.
>virtue emojis on Twitter and GitHub That's pretty unnecessarily negative/uncharitable. I know people (usually older) who are perfectly un-self-interested and unconditionally sympathetic to all people who use "virtue emojis" very innocently/sincerely on their social media. All you have is the word of my anecdote, but these individuals are not engaging in self-promotion (unless one expansively defines it to include al…
What is a virtue emoji?
Re: Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to cooperate with you
#109It’s interesting as many financial frauds tends to flex flashy clothes with logos and people trust them a lot.
Re: Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to cooperate with you
#110I was having this talk the other day: I hate "high end" logo clothes and don't want to compete with people that showcase their logo clothes. The average clothing store is decent enough for me. I would buy clothes with no distinctive marks if I could find them. Just plain material and colors.
I make a point of either removing or covering logos on my clothing and accessories when I can't find unbranded options. A seam ripper is useful for removing sewn-on patch style logos. For embroidered or embossed logos, I often sew on a Cascadian flag patch - all of my backpacks and utility bags have them!